Arundhati Roy Quotes

This is the age of disruption.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Everything established should go out the window. But I don't know how to do it. If someone knew how, it would have happened by now.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

Everything is going to change.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.

My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

All that is solid melts into air. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.

Countries and individuals do not change unless they undergo a trauma.

Crisis creates leverage to change.

For years and years, people would say, 'The business is changing.' And I would say, 'The business is not changing. It's exactly the same as it was in the '70s, the '80s and the '90s.' But all of a sudden, the business changed, and it really did change.

A revolution resembles the death of a fading star, an exhilarating Technicolor explosion that gives way not to an ordered new galaxy but to a nebula, a formless cloud of shifting energy.

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

All I know since yesterday is everything has changed.

The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

The future is usually just like the past- right up to the moment when it isn't.

Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.